SG 51 sees regression of SGP backward to COLONIAL ERA.
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Jailed: Man who wanted 'protection money' from massage parlour offering sexual services
Douglas Cher Ze En pleaded guilty to four charges: criminal intimidation, behaving in a disorderly manner, assisting an unlicensed moneylender and having an offensive weapon. PHOTO: ST GRAPHICS
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Amir Hussain
SINGAPORE - Seven friends decided to get "protection money" from a massage parlour offering sexual services, as they believed the joint would not call the police, a court heard.
But they were mistaken and one of them, 27-year-old Douglas Cher Ze En, was on Wednesday (June 1) jailed for 10 weeks and fined $30,800.
He pleaded guilty to four charges: criminal intimidation, behaving in a disorderly manner, assisting an unlicensed moneylender and having an offensive weapon.
Four other similar counts were considered in sentencing.
A district court heard that Cher's friend Wu Wai Chung, 25, hatched the plan to extort money from a spa which offered sexual services, and then told his friends, aged 18 to 25, about the scheme on Nov 23, 2014.
At about 10.30pm that day, one of them, Alex Lai Shizheng, 24, "obtained massage services and confirmed that the spa did indeed offer sexual services", the court heard.
Lai then contacted the rest of the group, most of whom went to the spa. They left after they were given the owner's name card.
The next day, Wu again got a massage at the spa. After the session ended just after midnight, the rest of the group met him there.
Wu then told a 44-year-old receptionist that he would refer customers to the spa if given a commission - but she declined the offer.
The seven friends then shouted at her and Wu kicked a glass cabinet, damaging it. Wu told the receptionist that this was merely a warning and he would return the next day to collect $5,000. He said that if he was not paid, the group would cause further damage. The seven friends then left the spa.
The receptionist called police.
Among Cher's six friends who took part in the plot, two have been sentenced to probation. Wu is believed to be at large.
Lai got a conditional stern warning for his role. The case for one man is before the courts, while another faces separate charges for another case.
Cher's charge for behaving in a disorderly manner stems from a pub brawl on Nov 22 that year when he kicked and punched an unknown patron and punched another man's face at about 1.35am at the JD Pub in Golden Mile Complex.
Cher later took out a Swiss Army knife "with the intention of striking out at anyone who dared to come near him", the court heard.
On Nov 20, Cher was found with a truncheon at a cinema in Yishun. This was taken into consideration during sentencing, as were two other charges of helping a loanshark.
http://www.straitstimes.com/singapo...on-money-from-massage-parlour-offering-sexual
Jailed: Man who wanted 'protection money' from massage parlour offering sexual services
Douglas Cher Ze En pleaded guilty to four charges: criminal intimidation, behaving in a disorderly manner, assisting an unlicensed moneylender and having an offensive weapon. PHOTO: ST GRAPHICS
PUBLISHED5 HOURS AGO
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Amir Hussain
SINGAPORE - Seven friends decided to get "protection money" from a massage parlour offering sexual services, as they believed the joint would not call the police, a court heard.
But they were mistaken and one of them, 27-year-old Douglas Cher Ze En, was on Wednesday (June 1) jailed for 10 weeks and fined $30,800.
He pleaded guilty to four charges: criminal intimidation, behaving in a disorderly manner, assisting an unlicensed moneylender and having an offensive weapon.
Four other similar counts were considered in sentencing.
A district court heard that Cher's friend Wu Wai Chung, 25, hatched the plan to extort money from a spa which offered sexual services, and then told his friends, aged 18 to 25, about the scheme on Nov 23, 2014.
At about 10.30pm that day, one of them, Alex Lai Shizheng, 24, "obtained massage services and confirmed that the spa did indeed offer sexual services", the court heard.
Lai then contacted the rest of the group, most of whom went to the spa. They left after they were given the owner's name card.
The next day, Wu again got a massage at the spa. After the session ended just after midnight, the rest of the group met him there.
Wu then told a 44-year-old receptionist that he would refer customers to the spa if given a commission - but she declined the offer.
The seven friends then shouted at her and Wu kicked a glass cabinet, damaging it. Wu told the receptionist that this was merely a warning and he would return the next day to collect $5,000. He said that if he was not paid, the group would cause further damage. The seven friends then left the spa.
The receptionist called police.
Among Cher's six friends who took part in the plot, two have been sentenced to probation. Wu is believed to be at large.
Lai got a conditional stern warning for his role. The case for one man is before the courts, while another faces separate charges for another case.
Cher's charge for behaving in a disorderly manner stems from a pub brawl on Nov 22 that year when he kicked and punched an unknown patron and punched another man's face at about 1.35am at the JD Pub in Golden Mile Complex.
Cher later took out a Swiss Army knife "with the intention of striking out at anyone who dared to come near him", the court heard.
On Nov 20, Cher was found with a truncheon at a cinema in Yishun. This was taken into consideration during sentencing, as were two other charges of helping a loanshark.
